| 1936 |
- PM Gallery Exhibits work of Herbert Matter: December 3 - 17
- PM Instructional Talks - The Approach to 'Fine' Printing: Joseph Blumenthal of the Spiral Press
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| 1937 |
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1938
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- Peggy Boone Drawings: February 1938
- PM Gallery Exhibits work of Hans Alexander Mueller - Woodcuts: April
- Ruth Bernhard Photos: May 20 - June 10
- Gustav Wolf Woodcuts: June
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1939
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- Herbert Bayer - Posters and Advertising Art: April 12 - 30
- George Salter - Book Jackets: May
- Desha, Dora and Apaden - Fashion: July 26 - August 31
- Kutner: November
- Tony Palazzo - Magazine and Advertising Layout: December
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| 1940 |
- William Sharp - Cartoon Illustration: January
- Howard W. Willard: March 29 - April 19
- Printing and Advertising Arts 1840 - 1890. from the Warshaw Collection of Business Americana: September
- PM / A-D Gallery Exhibits work of Susanne Suba: Date Unknown
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| 1941 |
- Design in Education: Growing Art, Childrens Art Work: January - March
- Studies in Advanced Design: Students of Herbert Bayers American Advertising Guild Class: April - June 6May 16 - June 6
- Arnold Newman / Ben Rose Photos: September 2
- Silk Screen Prints: October 27 - November 12
Ruth Chaney, Harry Gottleib, Eugene Morley, Hyman Warsager, Anthony Velonis, Ruth Gikow, Elizabeth Olds, Leonard Pytlak, Harry Sternberg, Mervin Jules
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| 1942 |
- Andre Dugo - private viewing
through March
- AD Gallery presents:Advance Guard of Advertising Artists: Frank Barr, Herbert Bayer, Lester Beall, Jean Carlu, E. McKnight Kauffer,
Herbert Matter, Laszlo Moholy Nagy, Paul Rand, Ladislav Sutnar: through March
- Art for Recorded Music selected from Columbia
and Victor: August 7 - September
- The Face of the War
an exhibition of paintings in tempura by Xanti: November 16
- Susanne Suba - Drawings: November 17 - December 5
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| 1943 |
- Hans Bendix - Cartoonist: February
- Breitenbach - Photography: April
- Paintings, drawings and designs by Jim Flora: June 11 - July 18
- Art by Six Young People Under Twenty: Lili Cassell, Ernest Costa, Marjorie Mermelstein, Harold Paris, Paul Silverman, Marianne Streit: November 19 - December 30
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| 1944 |
-
Giusti and Moller Exhibit: November 28 - December 22
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| 1945 |
- Richard Erdoes - Drawings
- Lettering & Calligraphy in Current Advertising and Publishing
under the direction of George Salter and Paul Standard: May 11 - June 29
- Arnold Bank, Frank Bartuska, Toni Bonagura, William Brooke, J. Albert
Cavanagh, Warren Chappell, Edgard Cirlin, T. M. Clelan, W. A. Dwiggins,
Philip Grushkin, Robert Haas, J. J. Herman, Rand Holub, Gustav Jensen,
M. R. Kaufman, Riki Levinson, Sam H. Marsh, William Metzig, Oscar
Ogg, George Salter, David Soshenski, Andrew Szoeke, Tommy Thompson,
Jeanyee wong, Miriam Woods
- A Guide to Lester Beall:
November 19 - December 31
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| 1946 |
- Four Veterans:
Herbert Bender, Charles Egri, Gene Federico, Seymour Robins: March 26 - April 26
- Gergely / Barschel: Tibor Gergely, Hans J. Barschel: March 26 - April 26
- The Composing Room Story - Twenty Years with
the Composing Room: June
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| 1947
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- Ladislav Sutnar: His work from 1929-1946: January 10 - February 28 1947
- Paul Rand: March 31 - May 29
- Book Jacket Designer's Exhibit: June 3 - 20
- The Art Squad Show - including Alex Steinweiss, Gene Federico and Seymour Robins. All studied under Leon Friend at Abraham Lincoln High School: June 25 - July 14
- Early American Advertising Art - assembled by Clarence P Hornung: July 16 - August 22
- Hugo Steiner-Prag: August 25 - September 30
- Alex Steinweiss : Visual Communications Techniques: October 4 - November 28
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| 1948 |
- Design in Education - Brooklyn College: January 21 - March 12
- Ben Rose shows his photographs at A-D Gallery in New York: March 18 - April 18
- First Annual Exhibition - Book Jacket Designers Guild #1: contained work from Paul Rand, Gene Federico, George Salter, Alex Steinweiss, Alvin Lustig, E. McKnight Kauffer to name a few. May 5 - June 25
- Brodovitch - Junio Bazaar (didn't open)
- Will Burtin: November 9, 1948 - January 14, 1949
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| 1949 |
-
Young Talent (Industrial Art and Abe Lincoln High School): January 31- February 25
- Book Jacket Designs #2 - contains work from Jean Carlu, E. McKnight Kauffer, Alvin Lustig, George Salter, Gene Federico, et al: May - June 1949
- Hal Zamboni: March 7 - April 29
- Alvin Lustig: October 11 - December 2
- Pratt Institute Tomorrows Advertising Design Today: December - January '50
- Proposed exhibit: Bradbury Thompson - but no record that it happened
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| 1950 |
- Morton Goldsholl: February 7 - March 31
- Book Jacket Designs #3: April 17 - June 16
- In a letter to Editor Gallery Hortense Mendel states "In view of the present unsettled international situation and the necessity for Dr. Leslie and myself, who direct the gallery, to concentrate in the coming months on the Composing Room activities, we are making no plans this fall for the reopening of the gallery. It may be that after the first of the year we will be in a better position to do so."
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| 1951 |
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Fourth Annual Exhibition Book Jacket Designers Guild #4: contains work from Jean Carlu, E. McKnight Kauffer, Alvin Lustig, George Salter, Gene Federico, et al.: no date
- Young Designers: no date
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| 1953
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Letter to Miss Laurel Landisman dated January 12, 1953 - - Hortense Mendel states "at the moment our gallery is closed and we do not plan any events for the next few months."
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| 1958
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Gallery opens after a 7 year hiatus. Renames and creates Gallery 303 to display typographic arts
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| 1959
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Typography USA - Type Director's Club: May 25 - July 13
- Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar: July 15 - 31
- Glad Hand Press: August 3 - 30
- Making of A Book - Lester Douglas:September 1 - 30
- High School of Art and Design: October 1 - 15
- Second run of this show: Brownjohn, Chermayeff and Geismar: October 19 - November 20
- Posters from the Graphis Collection ofForeign Posters: November 23 - December 11
- Cooper Union Art School Alumni: December 15 1959 -
January 27 1960
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| 1960
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- An Evening with Art Kane: February 16
- CIBA Show: February 1 - 29
- SH&L Design Division of Sudler & Hennessey, Inc.: February
- Ten Designers from Milan: March 4 - March 31
- 10th Anniversary of Art Alumni - NYC Community College Show: April 4 - 28
- Pratt - New Talent Exhibition: May 5- 27
- Eleven leading designers from Paris exhibit at Gallery 303 in New
York
- Editorial art from McCall's magazine shown at The Composing
Room: October 1 - 28
- Lester Rossin Creative Group Show - Saul Bass, Neil Boyle, Clifford Condack, Dora, Helen Federico, Bert Groedel, Hoo V.V. Roy Kuhlman, David Stone Martin, Sam Martine, Merle James, Susan Perl, Ray Prohaska, Tony Schwartz, Robert Smith and Tony Sugarman: November 3 - 30
- John Averill: November 15 - December 30
- Society of Typographic Arts Show: December 5 - January 20, 1961
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| 1961 |
-
Sudler Hennessey and Lubalin show: February
- Neiman Marcus: March 7 - 30
- Mario Micosi: March 13 - 31
- Canadian Broadcasting Corp.: April 5 - 26
- AIGA Children's Book Show Children's Books from 1958 - 1960: April 19 - May 19
- George Nelson and Company: May 3 -31
- Gerstner - Kutter Exhibit: September 12 - October 12
- Push Pin Studios: October 15 - November 21
- New York Times: date unknown
- Come Home to Jazz: date unknown
- George Salter: A Third of A Century of Graphic Work: December 14, 1961 - January 11, 1962
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| 1962 |
- Fortune Magazine Exhibit:January 17 - March 8
- French Graphics Exhibition (Jean Carlu): March 15 - April 12
- 55 Years of Lucian Bernhard: May 3 - June 15
- Bernard Brussel-Smith: September 21 - October 24
- Jean Garcia: November 2
- Gyorgy Kepes: December 5
- Young Designers #1: December 13 -January 30, 1963
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| 1963
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- Ernst Reichl - Book Titles & Book Design: February 7 - March 13
- Irving Miller: March 20 - April 24
- Time Inc. - work done by Time Art Director Sheldon Cotler and staff artists Wlater Lefman, Richard Boland and Ron Devito: May 2 - June 12
- Young Designers #2: June 20 - July 17
- Sutter and Wartik graphic Design(date unknown)
- Raymond Gid(date unknown)
- Celebration de la Lettre: September 12 - October 16
- Composing Room Awards: Pratt, Cooper, Yale, October 23 - December 3
- Parsons etc. Peter Hirsch (date unknown)
- Graphics from Germany: December 12 1963 - January 22, 1964
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| 1964
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- Young Designers #3: January 30 - March 18
- Bob Greenwall NBC Graphics: March 30 - May 13
- Des Asmussen - Illustrations and Drawings: May 18 - May 22
- Contemporary Fine Presses in America - Victor Hammer, Edward Colker, Greenwood Press, The Ward Ritchie Press, The Allen Press and the Plantin Press as well as the Antique Press, Gladhand Press, Peter Pauper Press and Prial Press.: May 27 - June 19
- Lotte Jacobi: June 25 - July 27
- Anton Stankowski: August 5 - September 23
- Peter Gee: September 30 - October 28
- Young Designers #4: November 5 - December 23
- Anna Jaffe Calligraphy Students, Tel Aviv (Israeli School): November 30 - December 11
- German Book Jackets: December - January 65
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| 1965
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Begins “Heritage
of the Graphic Arts” lecture series at Gallery 303. Exhibits continue.
- Geigy Pharmaceutical: January 20 - February 26
- Elly Gross: February
- George Giusti: March 4 - April 14
- Typographica - Herbert Spencer: April 21 - May 28
- Ward and Saks: June 4 - July 9
- Gallery of American Automobile Print Show: August 2 - September 9
- John Massey: September 9 - October 20
- Young Designers #5: November 10 - December 22
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| 1966
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Morton Goldsholl: January 13 - February 24
- Georg Trump: March 2 - April 14
- CBS Graphics: April 21 - May 31
- Young Designers #6: June 8 - July 8
- Polish Posters Show: July 14 - August 23
- University Press Books: September
- The Advertising Made by Carl Ally: September 14 - October 26
- The Art of Art for Children's Books by Diana Klemin: November 2 - 30
- Young Designers #7: December 7 - January 18, 1967
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| 1967
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The exact 1967 schedule is unclear due to construction and conflicting notes
- Czech Posters show: January
- Richard Ellis: January
- Metromedia graphics: Work of Roger Ferriter, Len Johnson, Marilyn Grosser, Bernie Koller, Jay Tribich: January 24 - March 30
- Morgan Press Retrospective: April 12 - May 5
- Young Designers Series #8: Edward Bianchji, Burton Blum, Nicholas Fasciano, John McVicker, Sagebrush-Skip Andrews, Ed Mell and Roger Zimmerman: April 29 - June 30
- Sports Illustrated Show: May 10 - June 2
- 40th Anniversary of the Composing Room: June 7 - June 29
- Society of Publication Designers Show - Magazine Design Awards: either July 7 - July 26
or June 4 - August 9
- Prominent Czech Artists: June 17 - August 18
- Composing Room Award Show: August 16 - August 29
- Gallery under construction in September
- IBM and Bonder and Carnase: (postponed because of construction)
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| 1968
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IBM Show: February 14 - March 15
- Art Kane: April 3 - April 30
- Herb Lubalin: May 7 - May 30
- Wells Rich Greene, Inc. Advertising: June 4 - August 9
- Society of Publication Designers Show Magazine (shows 1967 and 1968 shows) Design Awards
- Bernard Weil '68 Abstract Paintings: August 16 - August 30
- Mo Lebowitz - Antique Press Show: August
- Graphic art by Laus Winter and Helmut Bischoff: December 9 - 31
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| 1969
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Young and Rubicam: January 1969
- Executive AD, Chuck Bua of Douglas D. Simon Advertising, Inc: February 17 - March 18
- ABC Graphics: March 26 - April 29
- NW Ayer - Recent Advertising: May 21 - June 20
- An Exhibition and Film by Hallmark Cards - Herman Zapf and his Work: July 15 - August 15
- Herman Zapf: July 14 - September 11
- 3rd Eye Graphics: September 24 - October 22
- Ted Menten and Gardner: October 29 - November 26
- Ketchum McLeod: November 25 - December 31
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| 1970
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The Black Artist in Graphic Communication: January 13 - February 20
PDF of the article "Black Artist in Graphic Communication" by Dr. Cheryl D. Miller about this exhibition
from Communication Arts, 2022
- Chuck Bua: February - March
- New York City College Alumni: March 3 - March 20
- Oldrich Menhart: April
- Moog Synthesizer: May 7
- Young Designers
- Schwartz-Wassnyg Inc: September
- Warren Chappell - A Retrospective: October 7- November 20
- Lou Dorfsman (CBS): (date unknown)
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| 1971
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Center for Visual Studies, MIT: December 8, 1970 - January 21
- Advertising in the Public Interest: January 28 - March 18
- Young Designers Showcase Series #10: March 26-May 5
- AIGA Eleventh Annual Children's Book Show: April 29
- Seven Women - Nina Salzberg, Carol Caputo, Ann Wallingford, Maggie Fowler, Adrienne Leban, Nancy Greenberg, Rose Ann Parisi: March 26 - May 5
- Award Show - Society of Philadelphia Designers: tentative mid May - June
- Advertising Council Campaigns Show
- Winter & Bischoff: December 9 - 31
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